Happy New Year everyone!

Now that 2007 has officially passed (and for the record, it was a bad year for me), I am ready to meet the new year with optimism and a really big hello. HELLO 2008!

I thought I would share some of the things that I plan to work on this year

• Blog at both Baldiness and CFS Squared with a whole lot more frequency. If you ever want to read something a bit different (but still me) come hang out at CFS2 and find out what sleepy people do for fun!
• Drink a lot more water – which is good for people who are fatigued, and good for people who have hair, skin and nail issues.
• Get more fresh air. Since I have bronchial issues most of the year, the outdoors is a good place for me to hang out
• To eat better – which means more fruit and vegetables (both of which are good for hair growth) and maybe have a few more glasses of milk.

• Get out to see more movies – there is a samurai movie festival that starts this month in my home town, and I am so excited about it – and these dudes have serious hair issues. And my favorite baldy, John Malkovich has a ton of new movies coming out, so I will be one very happy audience member.

There will be more resolutions in the coming days, but for now I think this is a good start.

I would love it if you would share some of your New Years projects that you are working on.

Cheers!

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A New Year…A New Outlook

Would you be interested in spending your hard earned money to see this movie. Early buzz says its going to be great.

**picture source – www.FT.com

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Harold – A Movie for a Bald Audience

Last week on Oprah, a very special episode was aired. For the first time in 22 years, the audience was completely comprised of men. I know…unheard of, right. The reason for this was, Dr Mehmet Oz hosted the show entitled 300 Men Ask Dr Oz. One of the subjects discussed on this show was baldness.

According to Dr Oz (from The Oprah Winfrey Show),

Hair loss happens when two hydrogen molecules DHT (dihydrotestosterone) attach to testosterone. This poisons the hair follicles and causes them to change from making normal hair to peach fuzz like material, which is what going bald is all about.

Here is a brief rundown of what was talked else was talked about on the subject.

• MYTH – the baldness gene does not come from only your mother. You have two parents, the gene can come from either side.
• MYTH – if you cut your hair short, it won`t grow back any faster. Hair only grows about half an inch per month.
• Losing hair can be directed by the weather. Springtime, which is when your testosterone levels are at your lowest point, is when you will lose the least amount of hair.
• Home remedies such as baking soda or lemon (or the ashes of chicken dung and lye) do NOT work.
• The only solutions to hair loss are medications that block DHT production – and they will not help you grow new hair – but will only prevent the hair that you do have to stop falling out.

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Baldness and its Myths Are Discussed on Oprah

I just finished watching the movie, Evan Almighty – starring Steve Carell. Don’t worry, I won’t tell you my views on this movie. I don’t review movies in general, and definitely not Hollywood ones. However, there is a scene in this movie that made me think about hair. If you have seen the movie, then you probably know the one I am talking about.

It’s when Evan starts discovering the changes occurring around him. He is doing his morning grooming routine. As soon as he starts shaving, his hair grows back as quickly as it was removed.

How lucky we are, not to have this problem. For those people who think this movie is a perfect example of how power is found in our hair, let me remind you of some very successful spiritual and world leaders who lived sans hair:

Winston Churchill, Mahatma Ghandi,the 14th Dali Lama -Tenzin Gyatso, Franklin Roosevelt (mostly), Dwight Eisenhower, and Pierre Trudeau. All bald leaders….and all dynamic men (in their way) I can go on and on.

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A Problem Most of Us Will Never Have

When medicalization—the characterization of human traits in terms of disease and ailment—first appeared as a concept in the 1970s, most social science gender scholarship focused on female or genderless bodies. The work on men, health, and medicine was scant and tended to depict masculinity as intrinsically damaging to men’s health.

Medicalized Masculinities considers how these threads in scholarship failed to consider the male body adequately and presents cutting-edge research into the definition and regulation of masculinity by medicine. Renowned health and gender studies experts examine medicalized conditions such as balding, aging, and other dimensions of the life cycle in the tradition of the sociology of health and gender.

The book is laid out in eight chapters, including the introduction and one by Julia Szymczak and Peter Conrad discussing “the newly invented male ‘diseases’ of andropause and baldness.” Sounds like the chapter is critical of current trends, identifying both the medical/pharmaceutical industry and men themselves as co-conspirators in this rapidly growing segment of medicalization.

Without having read the book or the chapter most relevant to our normal topic conversation, it seems that I would likely find myself in agreement with the general thesis presented: It is a disservice to characterize some age-related baldness as a disease in need of treatment.

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Book: Medicalized Masculinities

Author interview

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Dad’s Bald Head

In the article the doctors argue that a close, clinical examination of a patients scalp has many benefits:

• Better identification of good surgery candidates
• Better forecasting of future hair loss patterns
• Better understanding of the patients hair characteristics
• Better planning of donor and recipient areas

This should be a no-brainer if you are considering hair transplant surgery. Make sure your surgeon takes a real close look at your scalp.

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Baldness Detection Critical to Successful Transplant Surgery

When the German brothers wrote the classic tale almost 200 years ago, they may not have imagined that their heroine would have the last name Schwartzbuckle. Nor would they have guessed that eyeglasses and baldness would figure prominently in the story of her rescue. (source)

I suppose when you think about it, even that first bit is a little odd. No matter… “Rapunzel” runs April 26-29. Contact The Phipps ticket office at (715) 386-8409 or www.ThePhipps.org for more info.

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“Rapunzel” Has Lost Her Hair

Look at that cover shot?

Gail before her alopecia. And such a serious look. I suppose it’s befitting a paranormal investigation.

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Dead Famous 2 Out on DVD

Here’s the promotional teaser:

Is There A Cure For Baldness?
Baldness… some men embrace it… others, well… they try to hide it. Men try lotions and potions, even plugs. One company recently unveiled a new comb that stimulates growth. But is there really a way to cure the curse of genetics? We’ll look at this question tomorrow.

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Media Alert: Today Show Discussing Baldness Tomorrow